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Epitome of the art of navigation; or, a short, easy and methodical way to become a compleat navigator: Containing, Practical Geometry, Plain and Spheric, Superficial and Solid; with its Uses in all Kinds of Mensuration. Trigonometry, Plain and Spheric, both Geometric, Instrumental, and Logarithmic; with its Uses in Navigation, viz. In Plain, Mercator's, and Great-Circle-Sailing, Geography. Astronomy, the Projection of the Sphere, &c. The Description and Use of the Plain Chart, Mercator's-Chart, both Globes, Hemispheres, and divers other Instruments. A New Form of keeping a Sea-Reckoning, or Account of a Ship's Way. A Traverse Table; A Table of Meridional Parts; a Table of 10,000 Logarithms, and Logarithmic Sines, Tangents and Secants, carefully Corrected. By James Atkinson, Senior. The whole revis'd, and corrected, with the utmost care, by William Mountaine, Teacher of the Mathematics.
Atkinson, James, active 1667-1715.Date: M,DCC,XLVII. [1747]- Books
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The mariner's compass rectified; containing tables, shewing the true hour of the day, the Sun being upon any Point of the Compass: With the true Time of the Rising and Setting of the Sun and Stars, and the Points of the Compass upon which they rise and set: With Tables of Amplitudes and Declination. Which Tables of Sun-Dials, Semidiurnal Arches and Amplitudes are calculated from the Equator to 60 Degrees of Latitude, either North or South. With A Description of the most useful Instruments in Practice in the Art of Navigation. Also, A Table of the Latitude and Longitude of Places. By Andrew Wakely, Mathematician. Enlarged with many useful additions, by J. Atkinson. The whole revised, corrected, improved and enlarged, with new tables and examples, by John Adams, Teacher of the Mathematics, And Author of the Young Sea Officer's Assistant.
Wakely, Andrew.Date: 1787- Books
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A complete treatise of practical navigation demonstrated from it's first principles: with all the necessary tables. To which are added, the useful theorems of mensuration, Surveying, and Gauging; with their Application to Practice. By Archibald Patoun, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Patoun, Archibald, 1706-1775.Date: 1762- Books
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Navigation new modell'd: or, a treatise of geometrical trigonometrical arithmetical instrumental and practical navigation. Teaching, how to keep a reckoning, both in latitude and longitude, ... With an appendix, touching currents, ... To which is added, a correct table of logarithms, ... By Henry Wilson, ...
Wilson, Henry, 1673-1741.Date: 1715- Books
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A complete treatise of practical navigation demonstrated from it's first principles: together with all the necessary tables. To which are added, the useful theorems of mensuration, surveying, and gauging ; with their Application to Practice. Written for the Use of the Academy in Tower-Street. By Archibald Patoun, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Patoun, Archibald, 1706-1775.Date: 1739